4-Wide Finish For Freedom 100

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Anything we say can't do this justice...
Here's the last two laps of the Freedom 100 race at Indianapolis this afternoon...


26-ten thousandths of a second is the end result for Peter Dempsey's win in the Indy Lights series...

"Beers are on me tonight," said Dempsey, who earned his first Firestone Indy Lights race in his 20th start.

Gabby Chavez was second and pole sitter Sage Karam was .0290 of a second behind the winner in third. Carlos Munoz, who led Laps 14-39, was .0443 of a second off the winner.

Now, the HQ would like to see if the 500-miler will be anywhere close to this race in the level of excitement...

Doubt it...

Indianapolis Race Weekend Starts On A Bad Note...

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The Freedom 100 is, usually, the first race of the Indy 500 weekend that is part of Carburation Day festivities.

It went the sum total of four laps before a wreck and a subsequent red flag...

Here's the incident...


The cars of Oliver Webb and Brandon Wagner took the biggest licks in the wreck while Emerson Newton-John, Peter Dempsey, and David Ostella all ended up being casualties...

There would be some four-wide racing with two laps to go, but the winner would be Esteban Guerrieri and Sam Schmidt Racing under a yellow-checkered situation after Jorge Goncalvez hit the wall on the back stretch at the same point of the five-car crash earlier in the race.